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Sunday, May 19, 2013 20:52
Grandmaster, arbiter of several World Championship matches and world renowned chess collector Lothar Schmid passed away on Saturday at the age of 85. Schmid died in his home town Bamberg "of age-related illness", reports Chessbase.
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid was born on May 10th, 1928 in Radebeul, a small town north west of Dresden, Germany. He won the Dresden Championship at the age of 15 and four years later, in 1947, he won after beating...
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